The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-03-11
JUDGE GOODWIN DEsPoNDENT.
He Views Cleveland with all q Re-
publican's Alteration.

Judge G. C. Goodwin, Of Salt Lake
City, has been in the city for several
days visiting friends. He was one of
the pioneers of the west, being prom
lnent figure IN Virginia City, Nevada,
when the famous Comstock mines first
came in notice. He has, however, for
years been resident of Salt Lake City,
and has been prominent in all nationaI
questions there as to Mormonism and
polygamy. When met last night st
the Southern by a Globe Democrat re-
porter and questioned on Utah
affairs, he objected to formal inter
view. but INDUCED in an informal con-
Yegsation. OF the Presidents course
On the anti-polygamy bill, which has
just become a law through action of
time, as the President refused either to
sign or veto it, but held it until it be-
came law, the Judge said;
CeWARDLY ACTION OF THE PRESIDENT.
1.-The President was in close place.
A portion of his party friends, the
Tueke Carlisle Morrison wing, wanted
much more effective bill; the north
eastern Democrats generally, backed
by Mr.. Lamar, wanted no legislation
at all, and so the President tired
up his ears and steered between
the two. It was the most cowsrdIv
act of his administration. and his
excuse that he feared some features of
the bill were not constitutional,
reads like joke when we think of the
lawyers whose constitutional doubts
We awakened. The fact is, the Pres
ident has changed his mind since he
wrote his first message. Then he
thought it would be a good play to
emulate indignation over polygamy in
Utah. At that time he knew no more
If Mo rmonism t han Sioux Indian
does of the nature of the troubles in
BIearia; but it struck him as a good
pnty play, and he played it. Since
then he has been forced to learn some
thing of the situation in Utah.
He knows Thoroughly well that
tIere is an organized conspiracy
there against free government; a
huge political machine that under
the name of religion is defying his
authority and that Of Congress and
the Supreme Court; but it has been
whispered to him that his party NAV
not always be able to keep Dakota out
of the Union, and may need three
electoral votes from Utah to eoualize
the votes OF Dakota and so his party
fealty is at war with his sense of right,
and hence in dazed way he struggles
to believe that if the w-breakers of
Utah should be throttled the Constitu-
ton might be violated. It is only fair
TO say that his present position is far
behind that of the mass Of. his party.
They are earnest in the desire that
Utah shall be 1Americanized."
GENTLE VICTORY.
"Of the bill itself said, Judge Good
win. "even if the Saints decide to take
the oath, it will still be an advance, for
it takes away woman suffrage and will
turn over two or three counties of Utah
to Gentle control. If they decline to
take the oath the bill will be all that is
needed, and the result will be a trans
fguratjon of Salt Lake YalEsy in the
next few years; because it is the natu-
raj center of q rich country as great in
area as the German Empire, in the
midst OF the finest mining region known.
and, with matters settled in Utah,
whenever man made a little fortune
in Eastern Nevada. Idaho, Wyoming
or Montana. ne would grayitate to Salt
Lake aud buy home. Globe Demo
crdt.